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ISSUE 84 / 2016
When people talk about heavyweight beef it rarely involves an actual boxing heavyweight, but we all know Stormzy likes
to do things a little differently.
STORMZY VS. DILLIAN WHYTE:
THE BEEF EXPLAINED
HIP HOP & RNB
So why did the 22 year old grime MC drop his first
track of 2016 and call out Dillian Whyte? Rewind to
Whyte's fight with Anthony Joshua for the Brit-
ish heavyweight title in December - Stormzy plays
Joshua into the ring with a slightly adapted version
of his ruthless hit, 'Shut Up:'
"Man try say he's better than
AJ / Tell my man shut up!"
After a lively fight, Joshua put Whyte to bed with a
hefty uppercut in the 7th round, leading the referee
to declare a technical knockout.
Whyte was probably pretty salty about the loss
(the first of his professional career), but in an inter-
view with iFL TV he had more to say about Stormzy
than his opponent in the ring:
"Listen, if you're from south
London you know what the
codes are from day one – if
he is south, he sticks with
south. You don't side with a
man from north London.
I'd knock him out. I'd give
him the real one *bang* and
knock him out. Listen, Stor-
mzy wouldn't dare say 'shut
up' to my face and that's a
fact."
Bringing us nicely up to date - yesterday Stormzy
dropped his first tune of 2016, 'One Take (Freestyle),'
going in over a slapped out beat from Rudekid.
Big Stormz takes pops at everything from the BRIT
Awards overlooking black UK artists to Dappy's use
of the N-word. The last few bars are saved for Dillian
Whyte, where Stormzy straight dismisses the boxer's
threats:
"I clocked it / My man's lost
it, Man held a beating / The
ref should've stopped it,
Mopped it / Had one chance
you flopped it, Threaten-
ing me won't make you the
heavyweight champ, rude-
boy, stop this."
No response from Whyte so far, and his Twitter feed
has been quiet for a couple of days. Let's see if this
fight goes to the next round.
